U23 Vietnam received a sad record at the U23 Asian Championship

In the 4th minute (3 minutes 17 seconds) of the match between U23 Vietnam and U23 Uzbekistan, in the final round of Group D of the 2024 U23 Asia Championship at Khalifa Stadium (Qatar) on the evening of April 23, Odilov easily cushioned the ball. U23 Vietnam scored the opening goal for U23 Uzbekistan.

This is the fastest goal in a match of the group stage of the Asian U23 tournament. Thus, U23 Vietnam recorded a sad record at the Asian tournament by becoming the team that conceded the earliest goal.

U23 Vietnam’s goal was about 2 seconds faster than U23 Thailand’s. Previously, the Golden Temple team conceded a goal in the match against U23 Saudi Arabia in the second round of Group C of the 2024 U23 Asian Championship.

Not only did they concede the fastest goal in the group stage, U23 Vietnam also had to concede 3 goals in the first half for the first time, in just 36 minutes. Even though Vietnam’s U23 squad had disturbances in strength, the defense of the “Golden Star Warriors” still made many mistakes.

More worth mentioning, all three times goalkeeper Van Viet went into the net to pick up the ball came from attacking situations on the left wing of Vietnam’s U23 defense.

Sharing after the match, coach Hoang Anh Tuan admitted that U23 Uzbekistan was too strong: “The match results showed that U23 Uzbekistan’s strength is very strong. Meanwhile, the U23 Vietnam squad has many players appearing for the first time. in this tournament.

In fact, Uzbekistan football is always stronger than Vietnam right from the U17 and U19 levels. There is no need to talk more about their strength.”

Thus, U23 Vietnam closed the group stage with 2 wins and 1 loss. Coach Hoang Anh Tuan’s team ranked second in Group D, meeting Group C’s top team, Iraq U23, in the quarterfinals.

This is a repeat of the 2018 quarterfinals in Changzhou (China), when Quang Hai and his teammates won 5-3 in the penalty shootout, after the two teams drew 3-3 in the final match. 120 minutes of drama.

Then U23 Vietnam under the guidance of coach Park Hang Seo won runner-up, creating a miracle for Vietnamese football.

Asia has 3.5 spots to attend the 2024 Paris Olympics in men’s football with the first, second, and third teams entering directly and the 4th ranked team of the 2024 U23 Asian finals will play a play-off with an African team. Therefore, if they win against Iraq, U23 Vietnam will be very close to participating in the Olympics for the first time this year.